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Pride: Queer Fiction from the WWB Archive

Favorite Queer Fiction

A street scene with Pride flags

© Norbu Gyuchung

Mirror over Water at Sunset

Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

We Only Live Twice

By Adel Tincelin

The transworld was so beautiful, so vast! There was so much to explore!

Translated from French by Evan McGorray

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A herd of reindeer attached to a sled at sunset

Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash

Polar Fire

By Moa Backe Åstot

Are there homosexual reindeer herders?

Translated from Swedish by B. J. Woodstein

Maternal Pride

By Matteo B. Bianchi

The first pride Rosa felt on this day was for herself.

Translated from Italian by Liesl Schillinger

The Indecency Club

By Trifonia Melibea Obono

The Fang forest is a free space. Now you are free.

Translated from Spanish by Lawrence Schimel

Miss Eddy

By Milena Solot

He was a candy you wanted to pop in your mouth and suck real slow.

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

While He Was Sitting There

By Mortada Gzar

He’s the third white soldier I’ve met this month.

Translated from Arabic by Claire C. Jacobson

Genesis

By Jeon Sam-hye

Because what you felt when he turned you down was how I felt whenever I looked at you.

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

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The Algerian and the Moroccan

By Abdellah Taïa

I opened my body to this crazy story, to this great love, the greatest and strongest that I’ve ever known.

Translated from French by Lydia Beyoud

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The Man with a Thousand Names

By R. Joseph Dazo

Aren’t you the one with the tattoos?

Translated from Cebuano by John Bengan

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Bahaa and Shareef Escape to New York

By Ezzedine Fishere

They didn’t get any satisfaction from coming out.

Translated from Arabic by Jonathan Smolin

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Cavities and Kindness

By Nao-Cola Yamazaki

It was almost Christmas, I had a cavity, and I was in the process of getting dumped.

Translated from Japanese by Kalau Almony

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